4 ways to foster employees' mental health in the workplace

By thinking broadly about your mental health benefit offerings, you can better provide value and meet the needs of your employees.

By Michael Serbinis | June 12, 2018 at 10:05 AM

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Empower employees with the right tools

remote and international team members healthy workplace cultures

Put care at their fingertips

concierge services

Provide opportunities for employees to reduce stress

take technology breaks

Communicate benefits effectively

preventing burnout

Michael Serbinis is the CEO and Founder of League Inc., a next generation health platform. Prior to League, Michael was the Founder and CEO of Kobo, a global leader in ebooks, and docSpace, a pioneer in cloud storage. Michael got his start building one of the first search engines, Zip2 at the start of the Internet boom.

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